Veteran Voting

[moondust]

5. Question for you.

Do you think reinstating a draft would be a good or bad idea? You probably know the arguments on both sides. Having a draft would tend to involve more children of privilege and therefore discourage their families and friends from dragging the country into unnecessary wars. Plutocrats would be less willing to sacrifice their own children.

On the other hand, an all-volunteer military tends to spare a lot of young people who aren't really fit for military service for one reason or another. But it also spares a lot of privileged kids whose families and friends may not mind sending poor kids off to war if it could mean big oil company profits or stock market gains (Cheney/Halliburton). I have a feeling that a lot of young people in today's military are there not so much out of duty to country but because they couldn't find a decent job with benefits anywhere else. Maybe that's the plutocrats' plan. ???

Any thoughts?